Amnesia for leader

[Paul Arden]

Is it possible to still buy the black amnesia? I have a use for it in fly tying

Thanks, Paul

One of the shops over here stocks it.
You need some?

Yes some spools of 40 lbs if possible please

Thanks, Paul

[ACW]

These days I only use shooting heads on double handers
Back in the day when I used to fish nasty lead trolling line shooting heads the nylon running lines would even on large argour reels curl ,kink and tangle with depressing regularity and would last a very short ime.
The S Parton came up with stren which was less tangle prone ,i also found some #1 wt floating level line which was great with an intermediate head and with care rarely tangled ,at present I am using a barstool similar running line ,no it does'nt go into a slinky .
BTW if I can use a spey line rather than a shooting head I am much happier (Skagit is the work of the devil)

[Lasse Karlsson]

It works for real competitions too

Amnesia, yeah sometimes it does, and at other times getting 30+ meters of mono to be straight just never happens with amnesia. Joke is it forgot to forget to have memory I now only use it for butt sections, for years it was the mandatory shootingline in the Danish Championships, and it was awful! As soon as it got a slight twist, it would stay there.

Cheers
Lasse

[Lasse Karlsson]

Andy, try the opst smooth

I fish shootingheads majority of the time, only really use a full line when riverfishing dryflyish (even used to use a shootinghead there) so have been through alot of different mono's, my life is too short for coated runninglines all running and shootinglines are prone to tangles, part of the learningcurve.

Cheers
Lasse

[ACW]

Andy, try the opst smooth

I fish shootingheads majority of the time, only really use a full line when riverfishing dryflyish (even used to use a shootinghead there) so have been through alot of different mono's, my life is too short for coated runninglines all running and shootinglines are prone to tangles, part of the learningcurve.

Cheers
Lasse

Thanks
may well get some from Funky Toby at the next London fly fair ,any ideas on a shooting head for my HT4 there are some barstool fish that seem to rise at beachcaster distance on my season ticket water .
glad the barstool translator is still working .

[Paul Arden]